Summary

After the Battle of Tarkon the moon fortresses didn't return to business as usual, so Doc is sent back to Tarkon to sort things out. Instead the powers of Tarkon remind him - and through him the League - of their presence and teach him a lesson that sometimes the cure is worse than the illness.Zach and Cmdr. Walsh are hard-pressed to believe the tale with which Doc returns.

"All this began two days before yesterday, or thirty-two thousand years ago, or 1933, or... I don't know when. I'm not sure I'm the one who can tell you. I'm no soldier, no historian or archeologist, and I have serious issues with this. I wish I..."